Nobody sees a flower really, it is so small. We haven’t time,and to see takes time- like to have a friend takes time. One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled, but few are educated.
THOMAS MOREFriendship demands attention.
More Thomas More Quotes
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The servant may not look to be in better case than his master.
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A good tale evil told were better untold, and an evil take well told need none other solicitor.
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It is a wise mans part, rather to avoid sickness, than to wish for medicines.
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You wouldn’t abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn’t control the winds.
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Who does more earnestly long for a change than he who is uneasy in his present circumstances? And who run to create confusions with so desperate a boldness as those who have nothing to lose, hope to gain by them?
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As for rosemary, I let it run all over my garden walls, not only because my bees love it but because it is the herb sacred to remembrance and to friendship, whence a sprig of it hath a dumb language.
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I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake.
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Your love has build me from strength to strength. It has made me a stronger and better person than I was. There is nothing that love cannot change darling. Once you fall in love, even wars turn to love stories.
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It is part of the business of life to be affable and pleasing to those whom either nature, chance or circumstance has made our companions.
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Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.
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Take something from yourself, to give to another, that is humane and gentle and never takes away as much comfort as it brings again.
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And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you will provoke another; and that which removes the one ill symptom produces others.
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The Utopians feel that slaughtering our fellow creatures gradually destroys the sense of compassion, which is the finest sentiment of which our human nature is capable.
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They have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters.
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There are several sorts of religions, not only in different parts of the island, but even in every town; some worshipping the sun, others the moon or one of the planets.
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One man to live in pleasure and wealth, whiles all other weap and smart for it, that is the part not of a king, but of a jailor.
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Because the soul has such deep roots in personal and social life and its values run so contrary to modern concerns, caring for the soul may well turn out to be a radical act, a challenge to accepted norms.
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For when they see the people swarm into the streets, and daily wet to the skin with rain, and yet cannot persuade them to go out of the rain, they do keep themselves within their houses, seeing they cannot remedy the folly of the people.
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Food is an implement of magic, and only the most coldhearted rationalist could squeeze the juices of life out of it and make it bland. In a true sense, a cookbook is the best source of psychological advice and the kitchen the first choice of room for a therapy of the world.
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It’s a poor doctor who can’t cure one disease without giving you another.
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The way to heaven out of all places is of length and distance.
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The state of things and the dispositions of men were then such, that a man could not well tell whom he might trust or whom he might fear.
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They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is.
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Nor can they understand why a totally useless substance like gold should now, all over the world, be considered far more important than human beings, who gave it such value as it has, purely for their own convenience.
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Getting married is like putting one’s hand in a bag containing 99 serpents and one eel.
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Everywhere do I percieve a certain conspiracy of rich men seeking their own advantage underthat name and pretext of commonwealth.
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